New York state judge Juan Marchan granted a request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to impose a gag order on former President Trump in the hush money case.
Marchan issued an order Tuesday against the prospective 2024 Republican presidential nominee, pointing to his “previous extrajudicial statements” and saying they posed “a substantial risk to the administration of justice.”
Trump hush money trial begins April 15th, judge rules deny motion for postponement
Mr. Marchan said President Trump made public statements or directed others about potential participants, including witnesses, attorneys in cases other than Mr. Bragg, court officials, DA’s office employees, and family members of those employees. I ordered that I could not do that.
Marchand also ordered Trump not to make public statements or direct others about potential jurors or selected jurors.
Marchan said in his ruling that Trump has made statements during other trials in the past, likely stemming from the case with New York Attorney General Letitia James, which ended in a months-long non-jury trial. He said he was referring to the civil fraud trial.
“Indeed, his comments were threatening, inflammatory, and defamatory, and his comments targeted local public officials, federal employees, court and tribunal officials (prosecutors and officials assigned to cases), Marchand said, “The effects of these statements include not only fear on the part of the targeted individuals; This included allocating more security resources to investigate and protect individuals and their families.”
Machan announced Monday that the trial will begin on April 15.
Mr. Bragg indicted Mr. Trump on 34 counts of first-degree falsification of business records. Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Bragg alleged that Trump “repeatedly fraudulently falsified New York business records to cover up his criminal conduct in concealing information harmful to voters during the 2016 presidential election.”
President Trump asserts his innocence and says, “I never thought something like this could happen in America.”
The price is related to Suspicion of paying hush money It was created during the 2016 presidential election period.
In 2019, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York chose not to indict Trump in connection with payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
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The Federal Election Commission also abandoned its investigation into the issue in 2021.
This is a developing story. Please check back for the latest information.
